Gimlet



UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE.

EZRA LHOMMEDIEU, OF CHESTER, CONNECTICUT.

GIMLET.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 627, dated March 10, 1838.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, EZRA LI-IOMMEDIEU, of Chester, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented and applied to use a new and useful Improvement upon Orval Percivals Patent (of East Haddam, Connecticut) for Making Gimlets, represented at Figure 2, viz:

After the pod of the gimlet is made and the screw is cut on the back of it, on the left of the center at the point of the screw take out a semicircular piece A, Figs. 1 and 3, the depth of one screw or more which makes a sharp point and causes the screw to 

